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Jean-Paul Marat
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Fifty years of anarchy await you, and you will emerge from it only by the power of some dictator who will arise- a true statesman and patriot.
— L'Ami du peuple, vol. 7 (1792-09-05), p. 4790
Jean-Paul Marat
Politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
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The radical journalist of the French Revolution whose newspaper L'Ami du peuple made him the voice of the sans-culottes—and whose murder in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday turned him into a martyr painted by David, mourned like a saint.
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Jean-Paul Marat was a French physician and scientist who became a political theorist and journalist during the Revolution. His periodical L'Ami du peuple established him as an unofficial link to the radical Jacobins who took power after June 1793, his writing known for its fierce tone and uncompromising attacks on revolutionary leaders and institutions. Responsibility for the September Massacres has been attributed to him, though others argue the collective mentality arose from circumstances rather than any single will. On 13 July 1793, Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, assassinated hi…
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Jean-Paul Marat
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How could liberty ever have established itself amongst us?
— L'Ami du peuple, no.672 (1792-07-14)
Jean-Paul Marat
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People, give thanks to the gods! Your most redoubtable enemy has fallen beneath the scythe of Fate.
— L'Ami du peuple, vol. 5 (1791-04-04), pp. 2649-50
Jean-Paul Marat
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Robertspiere [sic], Robertspiere alone in vain raised his voice against the perfidious decree regarding superior conscripts, but his voice was muffled.
— L'Ami du peuple (1790-12-05), as cited in Robespierre (1910-67), vol. 6, p. 611
Jean-Paul Marat
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The people are never voluntary slaves, they yield not to power, but when they believe it to be a duty, or are unable to oppose it.
— THE CHAINS OF SLAVERY**
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